"Memory Rot" is a virtual process piece that achieves harmonic layering by even-ordered speed radios. Form is determined by time, which can be visualized -- as typical in Western understandings of musical form -- on a vertical axis: harmony shifts on a glacial scale as the various tracks resolve themselves over a predetermined period. 

The result is the effect of melting or "rotting" away which occurs at a slow and primarily felt (as opposed to overtly heard) rate as the layering between the simultaneously playing audio glacially shifts.

The jazz-inspired electric keyboard palette is treated with ambient procedures so as to intertwine two temporally and functionally akin genres so often considered to be culturally considered distinct. 

Roll up time & burn slow. 

A 2013 GATE Production. 
Composed and produced by Kara-Lis Coverdale in Montreal, Quebec. 

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Memory Rot

Purchase: bit.ly/3OWXicn
Catalog #: GN64
June 10, 2022
LP+DIGI

Smoke Point is a duo composed of Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory). With their self-titled debut LP on Geographic North, the Los Angeles-based duo takes a captivating cruise through heady ambient drifts and ruthlessly rhythmic loop dreams.

Foote and Caswell first teamed up to create a series of improvisational atmospherics throughout a multi-room art gallery. The pair conceived of a sprawling, dynamic experience with tones, rhythms, and textures that varied from room to room, yet were inextricably tuned and melded together. Visitors could serve as a sort of human crossfader, moving through the gallery and dialing up or down aural aspects as they pleased. And although the collaboration came together to create music for a specific physical space, the concept was never fully realized until what is now the duo’s first record. 

Smoke Point brings five extended, cruise-controlled exercises that calmly violate the Venn diagram's overlap between boundless dance music and unfathomable ambiance. But beyond the boundaries of an album as a set of songs, Foote and Caswell cracked things wide open and recontextualized the album as an actual DJ tool onto itself; ambient leaning and melodically focused. To achieve this, 'Smoke Point' offers a bounty of loops in the form of endless locked grooves on the vinyl edition and brief but equally utilitarian snippets on the digital edition of the LP.

Smoke Point

Smoke Point - "Awakening"

Building Something Beautiful For Me

Building Something Beautiful For Me (Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc)

Ocean

Ocean (Glimpse)

Sections 17-30

All I Ever Needed

Latency alla Villa Medici III

Holom 1

A live stochastic experiment with 
four of Cherry Audio's Mercury-8 
Jupiter synthesisers. 

Taken from the album 'Peel' released as 2LP and Digital

Peel

KMRU 'Why Are You Here' (EMEGO 289)

Vinyl Edition available now via Second Thoughts Records:
https://secondthoughtsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-turntable-guitars-sampled-instruments

Recorded and produced by Chuck Blazevic, Summer 2017 - Fall 2019.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Graphic Design by Simone at Studio-Noi.
Co-released by Second Thoughts Records and Reliable Effects

Ocean (Glimpse)

Laraaji